october book club
saturday 19th || tuesday 22nd || friday 25th
In store | Tickets $45 | Bookings essential
A story of friendship and family secrets in 1970s Japan, from the prizewinning author of The Memory Police.
Book Club Session Times:
- Saturday 19 October 3-4pm (subject to sufficient bookings)
- Tuesday 22 October 6.00-7.00pm
- Friday 25 September 10.30-11.30am
about book club
Participation is $45 per month, with each month needing to be booked separately. Each session includes:
- copy of the new release book
- moderated discussion
- drink on arrival, light refreshments (evening sessions) or takeaway coffee / tea, biscuits (daytime sessions)
(Please note: as drink orders for the day sessions will be taken at the start of each session to be prepared at a local café, late-arriving participants will not be included. BYO reusable cups encouraged!)
Places in each session are limited. A participant may only attend one session per month.
Books will be made available well in advance of session dates to ensure plenty of reading time. Once booked, we will make contact with participants with full information and timing.
Bookings for all sessions will fill on a first come, first served basis. A waitlist function will activate on the booking link in the event all sessions sell out.
Mina’s Matchbox
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A story of friendship and family secrets in 1970s Japan, from the prizewinning author of The Memory Police.
On sleepless nights, I open the matchbox and reread the story of the girl who gathered shooting stars.
After the death of her father, twelve-year-old Tomoko is sent to live for a year with her uncle in the coastal town of Ashiya. It is a year which will change her life.
The 1970s are bringing changes to Japan and her uncle’s magnificent colonial mansion opens up a new and unfamiliar world for Tomoko; its sprawling gardens are even home to a pygmy hippo the family keeps as a pet. Tomoko finds her relatives equally exotic and beguiling and her growing friendship with her cousin Mina draws her into an intoxicating world full of secret crushes and elaborate storytelling.
Rich with the magic and mystery of youth, Mina’s Matchbox is an evocative snapshot of a moment frozen in time, and a striking depiction of a family on the edge of collapse.
about the author
Yoko Ogawa has won every major Japanese literary award. Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, A Public Space and Zoetrope. Her works include The Memory Police, The Diving Pool, a collection of three novellas, The Housekeeper and the Professor, Hotel Iris and Revenge.